The “Creative Community Care” exhibit will open soon at the Olson Gallery (Bethel University, St Paul, MN). It will be on display from November 1 t…
We praise God that on Tuesday October 7, 2024, 75 Christian leaders from very different ethnic, theological, political, and generational background…
Thanks to the Strengthening Pastoral Formation grant received from City Seminary, Wesley Theological Seminary provided two urban immersions that al…
The Esperanza Collab is a ministry of Living Stones Church in East Boston. Through this ministry they partner with other nonprofits, business, and …
Affinity Working Group grantee Michael Mata shared a recent update on his group:
The guys (yes, all males) are very busy people. In addition t…
Strengthening Pastoral Formation grantee Jesse Sudirgo, along with five other scholarly practitioners in Toronto, focused on on-site visits with ur…
The goal of the Beloved Community (BC Baltimore) Affinity Working Group is to create an intentional community that provides time, space, and opport…
Strengthening Pastoral Formation grantee Dr. Alexia Salvatierra shared an update about the “Joshua Project” at Fuller Seminary. They held a long-pl…
The Creative Community Care traveling exhibition continues on its journey around North American cities. It will be on display at Ecclesia Houston…
Congregations and Communities grantee Rev Kathy Maskell shared this update on her work at her church in Denver. The early part of the year was spen…
Earlier this year, the H.O.P.E. Network at the Metro-Urban Institute held an initial community training workshop through the Community Conversation…
As an update to Strengthening Pastoral Formation grantee Revelation University’s program, “Next Generation Leaders,” Rev. Iris de Jesus shared that…
This spring, the core team for the Pulse of Urban Ministry project met with several learning communities in Toronto and Vancouver for a couple of m…
This is a photo from the Boston Sankofa Journey Affinity Working Group’s first meeting in spring 2024. Led by Rev. Kelly Fassett and made up of loc…
Last month, the Redeemer University North America (RUNA) Leadership Bridge project, led by Rev. Dr. Shola Awobajo, conducted its first workshop. Du…
This spring has been spent mostly asset-mapping and networking with the seminary’s existing partners: Urban Impact Seattle, the Parish Collective, …
The “Understanding Asian-Black Relations” project, part of the Strengthening Pastoral Formation initiative, has a Co-Director, Dr. Chad Hinson, Ass…
Rev. Dr. Joyce Chan, Congregations and Communities grantee in Vancouver BC, has been hard at work on Project Shalom. She is excited to see the laun…
As part of the Congregations and Communities initiative, Rev. Dr. Young Lee Hertig and her co-researchers Dr. Jerry Park (Baylor University) and Re…
The grant timeline for the “Arts as Transformational Ministry” program at First Church of the Nazarene Los Angeles has been extended to accommodate…
Hope for the City: Transforming Urban Leaders, based in Baltimore Maryland, launched in December 2023 with the aim of developing 21st-century urban…
Congregations and Communities grantee Rev. Chris Lawrence gave us this update on his work with seniors in Harlem. For the last few weeks, they work…
We hosted our first HUB Regional Gathering : West Coast on March 4-5, 2024 in conjunction with the first iteration of the “Creative Community Care:…
After several weeks of gathering a formation group on friendship at her church, Oasis Church Chicago, Collaborative Seed Grantee Dennissa Young put…
Collaborative Seed Grantee Susan Shimazu continues to press forward with the VISIBLE Polylogue. Due to unforeseen circumstances, she has had to swi…
Brian Peterson’s Collaborative Seed Grant project, “Pillars of Hope,” is making progress after facing a number of logistical hurdles. The City of M…
As part of leadership work for BLVD Harambee, a HUB Congregations and Communities grantee, young people lead community outreach in the city. This p…
An outcome of a nine-month virtual art residency co-led by HUB co-director Dr. Maria Liu Wong and Dr. Sarah Gerth van den Berg, _Creative Community…
Collaborative Seed Grantee Noemia Marinho hopes to host an exhibition of the work produced with six participants with Gleaning Project in June 2024…
Jesse Sudirgo (Tyndale University) leads “The Pulse of Urban Ministry in the Greater Toronto Area” project. The team sought to capture a snapshot o…
Led by Rev. Dr. Shola Awobajo and the Redeemers University North America (RUNA), the purpose of this project is to gather evidence-based informatio…
As one of our HUB Congregations and Communities grants, the goal of One Body Philly is to encourage increased dialogue among and between Christian …
Rev. Michael Mata leads a Congregations and Communities grant, the Arts Transformational Ministry (ATM) project, whose purpose is to strengthen the…
Youth minister Gabriela (Gabby) Balbuena leads the “Cafe Con Cristo” Young Adult program, based at Church of Our Savior in the Bronx. One of our Co…
Esperanza Collab is a ministry of Living Stones Church in partnership with EastieFit (a CrossFit gym), Infinite Ballers (a youth soccer development…
One of the pilot HUB Collaborative Seed Grants, Gleaning Project led by New York-based artist Noemia Marinho brings renewal to marginalized neighbo…
The “Missional Church Leadership Formation Network,” led by Rev. Dr. Christian Scharen, is focused on cultivating a new network for leadership form…
One of the HUB’s Congregations and Communities grantees, Church of the Messiah Detroit is a 149 year old Episcopal church on the east side of Detro…
Led by Erika Lee, Manni Lee, and May Chin, Women of Wonder! (WOW!) exists to grow a community that walks alongside women to uncover and affirm thei…
One of the HUB’s Congregations and Communities grantees, Rev. Chris Lawrence leads this project which serves the 284 senior residents of a public h…
Led by Rev. Dr. Lorena Parrish, Wesley Theological Seminary’s “Innovation-Focused Urban Ministry Immersions” program is one of the HUB’s Strengthen…
Min. Oluwatoyin (Toyin) Omolola leads the “Youth Ministry in Cosmopolitan Cities” Affinity Working Group, which launched in early 2023. The group’s…
Miami-based artist Brian Peterson is collaborating with Heaven Sent, a meal ministry with the unhoused in Miami, FL, in a Collaborative Seed Grant …
Led by Dr. David Leong, the goal of the Urban Ministry Leadership Cohort project was to develop and sustain urban ministry leaders at Seattle Pacif…
Strengthening Pastoral Formation initiative grantee Campus for Urban Ministerial Education’s (CUME) mission is to provide a contextualized theologi…
Led by Fullerton-based artist and educator Susan Shimazu, the VISIBLE Polylogue is one of the pilot Collaborative Seed Grant projects launched in 2…
The mission of Strengthening Pastoral Formation initiative grantee Revelation University is to train leaders with Christian values capable of promo…
The Bureau of Friendship is one of the pilot HUB Collaborative Seed Grant projects launched earlier this year. Chicago-based artist Dennissa Young …
With this initiative led by Rev. Dr. Joyce Chan, Canadian Chinese School of Theology Vancouver (CCSTV) hopes to promote mental and emotional wellne…
Hope for the City: Transforming Urban Leaders (TUL) is a project based in Baltimore, MD led by Rev. Dr. Anthony Hunt. It addresses the need and opp…
The Joshua Project engages the leadership of Fuller Theological Seminary’s Center for Asian American Theology & Ministry (AAC), Centro Latino (CL),…
Led by Rev. Dr. Kyuboem Lee (Missio Seminary), this project was undertaken from January 2023 to June 2023 to identify the contours of the relations…
The goal of this “Contemplative Spaces” Affinity Working Group organized by Erika Lee of Women of Wonder! (WoW!) was to cultivate connection among …
For 2022-23, the Urban Ministry Leadership Cohort at Seattle Pacific University led by Dr. David Leong focused intentionally on the “Inward Life of…
